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Frank D Hickingbotham Foundation Trust at a glance

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Frank D Hickingbotham Foundation Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$313k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$126k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$813kHealth$273kReligion$104kRecreation & Sports$76kYouth Development$39kArts & Culture$38kMembership Benefit$33kHuman Services$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $176k
$4,200
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY$126,400
ARKANSAS BAPTIST FOUNDATION$50,000
TRUTH MATTERS TRUST$25,000
FOUNDATION FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$25,000
UAMS FOUNDATION FUND$24,625
BAPTIST HEALH FOUNDATION$7,790
UNIVERSITY OF ARANSAS$5,000
ALZEHIMER'S ASSOCIATION$5,000
RAZORBACK FOUNDATION$5,000
TROUBLING OF THE WATERS MINISTRIES$5,000
CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION$5,000
ST JUDE$5,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$4,200
IMMERSE ARKANSAS$2,500
WILLIAMS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY$2,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALIVE HOSPICE: $500 → 14%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ARKA: $5k → 17%IMMERSE ARKANSAS: $3k → 17%IMMERSE ARKANSAS: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CO
MO
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 26 repeat orgs$327k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
32

Total granted

$1.1M
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+16%

Still filing today

54%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • OB
    OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $634k · revenue +41%
  • LR
    LITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $77k · revenue +52%
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    7× · 2018–2024 · $18k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • MC
    MCGEHEE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -6% · 41% of their budget
  • WC
    WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +205%
  • MH
    MCGEHEE HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +34%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Foundation of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame

To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history

Arts & Culture
2
Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care Inc

To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education

Health
3
Arkansas Hospice Inc

To enhance the quality of life for those facing serious illness and loss by surrounding them with love and embracing them with the best in physical, emotional and spiritual care programs and services, and to help donors meet their…

Human Services
4
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families

Advocating for the development and implementation of data-driven public policy that improves child well-being in arkansas, with a focus on economic security, education, health, early childhood, child welfare, juvenile justice, and racial…

Human Services
5
Arkansas Health Care Association

Arkansas health care association was organized for the following purposes: (a) to maintain high standard of quality care and administration of nursing homes and similar health care facilities, (b) to create greater opportunities for the…

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6
Opportunity Arkansas Foundation

Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.

Philanthropy
7
Arkansas Pharmacy Foundation

Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.

Health
8
Christian Community Care Clinic

To provide medical care to the uninsured.

Health
9
Arkansas Hospital Education and Research Trust Inc

Education & leadership training to improve patient care.

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10
Arkansas Construction Education Foundation

Provide educational programs for construction industries.

Education
11
Arkansas Hospice Foundation Inc

Arkansas hospice foundation is a non-profit, charitable 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to raise public awareness and financial support for arkansas hospice and related organization's programs and services, and to help donors meet…

Health
12
Arkansas Tennis Association Inc

To promote and develop the growth of tennis.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Centers of Arkansas; the most unlike its peers is Alex Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 70 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
20/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $633,958 · EducationOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITYLITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $76,500 · EducationLITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC+2 more: $18,000 · EducationS G KOMEN FOUNDATION: $73,740 · OtherS G KOMEN FOUNDATIONUAMS FOUNDATION FUND: $68,250 · OtherUAMS FOUNDATION FUNDARKANSAS BAPTIST FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherARKANSAS BAPTIST FOUNDATIONHarding University Inc: $37,250 · OtherHarding University IncFOUNDATION FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $25,000 · OtherMCGEHEE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $24,000 · OtherCHOOSE OUTDOORS INC: $20,000 · OtherUAMS WP ROCKEFELLER CANCER INST PD: $19,000 · OtherLOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY: $18,334 · Other+39 more: $170,578 · Other+39 moreBaptist Health Foundation Inc: $52,140 · HealthMCGEHEE HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 · HealthEASTERSEALS ARKANSAS: $9,050 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health+5 more: $5,850 · HealthWOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE: $25,000 · Human ServicesIMMERSE ARKANSAS: $6,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ARKANSAS: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTRUTH MATTERS TRUST: $25,000 · ReligionFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $17,800 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Southeast Arkansas: $5,000 · Youth Development
Education$728,458Other$531,152Health$97,040Human Services$36,500Philanthropy$25,000Religion$25,000Youth Development$22,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $633,958 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $76,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBaptist Health Foundation Inc: $52,140 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHarding University Inc: $37,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMCGEHEE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetWOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCGEHEE HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUTH MATTERS TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCHOOSE OUTDOORS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $17,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC: $14,820 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetArkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $12,108 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERSEALS ARKANSAS: $9,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEX FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetIMMERSE ARKANSAS: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ARKANSAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Southeast Arkansas: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACC CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB OF LITTLE ROCK INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT HOLLY CEMETERY: $1,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetACCESS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Harding University Inc ↗
  • Who funds MCGEHEE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MCGEHEE HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUTH MATTERS TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CHOOSE OUTDOORS INC ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
  • Who funds Arkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
  • Who funds RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTERSEALS ARKANSAS ↗
  • Who funds ALEX FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IMMERSE ARKANSAS ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ARKANSAS ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Arkansas ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Arkansas Community Fo…Riggs Benevolent FundNabholz Charitable Fo…C Louis and Mary C Ca…Arvest FoundationDelta Dental Plan of …Roy and Christine Stu…Windgate Charitable F…Je and le Mabee Found…Lpr FoundationHorace C Cabe Foundat…George H Dunklin Jr C…
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR37.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Nabholz Charitable Foundation · C Louis and Mary C Cabe Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Delta Dental Plan of Arkansas Inc · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Lpr Foundation · Horace C Cabe Foundation · George H Dunklin Jr Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Frank D Hickingbotham Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank D Hickingbotham Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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